Privacy Rights

Title: Privacy Rights
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1 Introduction
For centuries the governance of the United States of America has been divided into two systems of governments. These are the Federal Government or the National Government and the State Governments. In this system of government, power is delegated from the Central Government to the Devolved or State governments. Despite this system having existed for many years now, there have been problems associated with sharing of power between these two forms of governments. This dates back to the earlier days when the Founding Fathers saw the need to have two governments. The idea of federalism came as a result of the newly independent states in the Americas merging together to achieve some intended social, political and economic objectives which they could not achieve could they have decided to go as independent states with their own machinery(Hail, M., & Lange, S., (2010).
These States had just separated themselves from the British colonialists and therefore they had to find a way to come together as independent states and run their own affairs. They saw it necessary to have a body that would represent all the new states. That is when the idea of federal governments came up. It was important to have one union that would work for the betterment of the diverse needs of the American people (United States Department of State). As a result, federalism was seen as the only way to have a strong united system that would properly balance the rights of the many States and ensure the needs of the national government are met at the same time. This was the main reason why the states came together. They could not manage some of activities they used to see only the British Colonial government do. States felt overwhelmed hence the need for a federal government.
Federalism was achieved and was entrenched in the United States Constitution after the proposal and approval of the leaders of the different states. Roles of the federal government were provided for and those of the State Governments were also provided for. Since then, there have existed laws that can only be enforced by the states and those laws that can be only enforced by the federal government. As such, the United States Supreme Law limits the jurisdiction of the federal government to powers granted to it by the constitution (Article 1 Section 9). Any other action taken by the federal government that is not provided for by the Constitution would be thus a violation of the same Constitution. Other powers that are not expressly granted to the Federal Government are thus left to States Government to enforce. Of great concern however, is the right to privacy. This has been a contentious issue as many have known and still believe that a person’s privacy should be respected at both levels of government. Despite the fact that everyone is entitled to their own privacy, there are breaches of this fundamental right calling for concern over the crucial right that is being violated by different players in the economy (Murphy, E., 2013).
Despite the fact that the Privacy Act protects and regulates what the federal government should have on...